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Flood season began in April in Tajikistan, but this year Malika, 51, mother of six, was ready to protect her village. As water and mud began flowing down the hills that surrounding her village of Shokhindoz in the Rasht Valley, Malika organized a team of fifteen women and two men on a three-day operation...

When the earthquake hit Nepal on 25 April, the first responders were community members themselves: neighbours, family-members and friends grouping around to help one another. When rescuers and aid workers started to arrive to help, many community members joined the relief effort, most as unpaid volunteers...

The escalation of the conflict in Yemen since March 2015, has had a devastating impact on Yemeni women, children and men. In the past four months, the violence has forced close to 1.3 million people to abandon their homes.
The number of casualties continues to rise. So far, more than 18,000 people have...

Following reports of children being trafficked in the wake of April and May earthquakes in Nepal, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has joined forces with the Government and other organizations to ensure the protection of vulnerable children through “targeted action and policy measures.”...